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Don’t close Gitmo without a plan: Ron Griffin, Gold Star dad

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Army Specialist Kyle Griffin was killed in Iraq on May 30, 2003. On Thursday, his father Ron Griffin wrote of his thoughts on the continued detention of the detainees at Guantanamo and their disposition:

As an American citizen, a veteran and the father of a fallen soldier, I cannot agree with closing the doors on Guantánamo and allowing the detainees to become criminal defendants instead of enemy combatants. Announcing the closure of this center, without a plan for what to do with the detainees, just doesn’t make sense. If brought to the United States to be tried as common criminals, these men will be afforded all the rights that law-abiding citizens have in this country. These are rights that I fought for and that my son died defending.

All Gold Star families — those families who’ve lost a loved one serving in the armed forces — deserve to know their children did not die only to have the people they were fighting given the same freedoms they were trying to take away from Americans.

Although it causes me great concern to think of these detainees being housed in the United States, it frightens me more that they will go to countries where their incarceration cannot be guaranteed. Several of the detainees who had been released from Guantánamo Bay are now missing or have rejoined the fight against the United States.

From suicide bombers in Iraq to the current deputy leader of al-Qaeda’s Yemeni branch, the list of confirmed terrorist activities by former Guantánamo detainees seems to grow every day. We cannot quietly stand by and allow those who killed our brave men and women in uniform to be returned to the battlefield, where they will undoubtedly continue their campaign against American soldiers and innocent civilians.

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American Muslim Teenager Killed in Bombing by Ex-Gitmo Detainee: the Untold Story of Jihad Hitting Home

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Susan Elbaneh was murdered by al Qaeda and apparently most of the media does not want you to know. Last week, you saw her killers’ faces splashed across the headlines yet away from her hometown, the media was busy playing echo-chamber.

Strangely, the New York Times has failed to report the whole story three times.

The proof of that assertion is: Robert F. Worth wrote of Susan Elbaneh’s fugitive cousin last March; he mentioned her death, name, and hometown last September while reporting on the bombing of our embassy in Yemen yet made no mention of Jaber Elbaneh; and their names and the latter’s connection to the Lackawanna Six were missing from his reports last week about two former Guantanamo detainees reuniting with al Qaeda in Yemen and their being suspected in that same attack upon our embassy.

American girl Susan Elbaneh was murdered by al Qaeda and reporters from in and near her hometown actually began doing their jobs back as far as September 18, 2008:

A Lackawanna High School student who traveled to Yemen to be married last month was one of the victims of a terrorist bombing Wednesday at the U. S. Embassy in Yemen, the woman’s school principal said. Attackers armed with automatic weapons, rocket-propelled grenades and at least one suicide car bomb assaulted the compound in the Yemeni capital of Sana. Officials listed the 16 people killed as six assailants, six guards and four civilians. Susan Elbaneh, 18, was killed, along with her Yemeni husband, as they stood outside the embassy, family members said Wednesday. They were apparently there to do paperwork for the husband’s move to the U. S. when the attackers struck, said Elbaneh’s brother, Ahmed.
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The Associated Press said Elbaneh had been in Yemen for a month for the arranged wedding Aug. 25. School officials said Elbaneh was the daughter of Ali T. Elbaneh and the niece of Mohamed T. Albanna, two Yemeni-American community leaders who took plea deals in a case involving an unlicensed money-transmitting company that illegally sent at least $5.5 million to Yemen. Authorities never have alleged that the money was used for terrorist purposes. In November 2006, U. S. District Judge William M. Skretny sentenced Ali T. Elbaneh to six months of home confinement for playing what federal prosecutors called a very minor role in the illegal business. Albanna received a five-year prison term. Authorities said the dead woman also was related to Jaber Elbaneh [Ed. — that is the FBI’s bulletin], Mohamed Albanna’s nephew, a fugitive accused of traveling to a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan with the “Lackawanna Six.”